Philosophy Department Faculty

David W. Johnson

Associate Professor

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David W. Johnson

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall North 349

Telephone: 617-552-3709

Email: david.johnson.8@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Emory University
  • Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University

Courses

Phenomenology of the Self as Cross-Cultural Philosophy

The Phenomenology of Life: Selected Readings

Comparative Phenomenology

Intersubjectivity after Heidegger

Asian Philosophy I and II

Comparative Philosophy and the Idea of the Self

Major Figures: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty

Modernism and the Arts

Research Interests

Phenomenology

Comparative Philosophy

Japanese Philosophy

Intersubjectivity

Aesthetics

Office Hours

By appointment

Department

Philosophy

Profile

Professor Johnson joined the faculty in the fall of 2013.聽He has been a visiting researcher at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany), the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya, Japan), the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto, Japan), and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). His research draws on primary sources in French, German, and Japanese to explore the shared ground to be found between phenomenology, hermeneutics, and Japanese philosophy as it develops in the aftermath of twentieth-century continental philosophy.聽

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